Profiles in Courage

No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
[…]any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.

Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.

Former SDNY Federal Prosecutor Hagan Scotten, resigning rather than commit an act of judicial corruption.

This post will remain at the top of my homepage, for as long as I feel like leaving it here, as a reminder that there are public officials willing to retain their integrity in the face of trump’s relentless corruption, regardless of personal cost.